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Oct. 30, 1934. c. F. LEFEVER GUN Original Filed Sept. 12, 1932 5 V MW i X C/mriasfiez erer MM #MM- WWW- ' Gum/ 56 Patented Oct. 30, 1934 1,978,799

UNiTD srnras PATENT OFFICE GUN Charles F. Lefever, Plymouth, Mich., assignor to Daisy Manufacturing Company, Plymouth, Mich, a corporation of Michigan Original application September 12, 1932, Serial No. 632,856. Divided and this application February 20, 1933, Serial No. 657,720

4 Claims. (Cl. 124-10) The invention relates to guns and forms a position of rotative adjustment. This body pordivisional of my pending application for patent tion also has struck out therefrom a lug Q which Serial No. 632,856, filed September 12, 1932. serves as a guide for inserting the cap in the The present application relates more particufalse barrel and also as a lock for retaining it larly to the construction of the removable in position. Cooperating with the cap member w shooting barrel and further to the means for O and lug Q thereof is a reinforcement member locking said shooting barrel in position and fitting within the false barrel B and this member for simultaneously controlling the closure is formed as a part of a sight member R. Thus the shot opening in a magazine barrel and varias shown, the sight member R is formed as ous other features as hereinafter set forth. an upwardly projecting flange on a cylindrical In the drawing: member S which extends part way around Fig. l is a side elevation of the gun; within the false barrel B, leaving a gap which Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the forms an entrance channel T for the lug Q. shooting barrel and magazine; The portion S is also cut away at U to permit Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 2; the turning of the cap K after the lug Q has EU Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the false barrel passed through the channel T, and the edges with the true barrel removed. V and W of this cut away portion form shoulders Figs. 5 and 5A are perspective views showing for respectively holding the cap against longithe interlocking portions respectively of the tudinal or further rotative movement. 120 false barrel and shooting barrel. With the construction just described, when As shown, A is the stock, B the false barrel, the barrel E is inserted within the false barrel C the frame, D the pivoted lever for use in B, its inner end F will engage the aperture in compressing the spring which actuates the air the abutment G and the lug Q on the cap 0 plunger. As the specific construction of spring will enter the channel T. The cap and barrel 5 pressed plunger and actuating mechanism thereare moved inward until the lug Q passes beyond for forms no part of the present invention, I the shoulder V, after which the cap may be addeem it unnecessary to further describe or illusjusted rotatively. This forms in effect a bayotrate the same. net lock which holds the shooting barrel from I-Ieretofore guns have been provided with deaccidental displacement. It also serves the .30 tachable shooting barrels such as E which are function of a valve or closure for the shot feed 6 detachably positioned within the false barrel B aperture P as in one position of rotative adjustwhile the space within the latter barrel surment the cut away portion 0 is in registration rounding the shooting barrel is utilized for formwith this aperture to permit of introduction of ing a magazine or shot reservoir. The present shot, while in the locked position the aperture construction includes this feature but I have P is closed by an imperforate portion of the devised a novel means of locking the shooting body L. barrel in position which also cooperates to form What I claim as my invention is: a closure for the feed opening into the maga- 1. In a gun, the combination with a false zine. As shown, the barrel E is provided at its barrel provided with a piston abutment therein, .4 rear end with a tapered portion F which fits of a true barrel insertable through the muzzle 9 .within the abutment G for the plunger (not of said false barrel having its inner end slidshown). A guide H surrounds the barrel E ably engaging the socket in said piston abutadjacent to the abutment and serves to direct ment, 2. cap mounted at the outer end of said the shot into a channel I from which they true barrel provided with a cylindrical flange 45 pass successively through an aperture J into telescopically engaging said false barrel, said the barrel E. At the forward end of the barrel flange being provided with a struck-out portion E is a cap member K which is formed of a at one point in its circumference, a reinforcecupped sheet metal blank having its body porment for the muzzle end of said false barrel artion L drawn inward to a smaller diameter leavranged within the same and cut away to form a 50" ing a return bent flange M. The center of channel for the passage of said struck out por- 10.3

the cap is provided with an inwardly extending tion on said cap, said reinforcement also coopflange N which fits about the shooting barrel crating with said struck-out portion to form a E and is attached thereto. The body portion bayonet lock for retaining said true barrel with- L has a cut away portion 0 for registration with in said false barrel. .551 a shot feed aperture P in the false barrel in one 2. In a gun, the combination with a false barrel provided with a piston abutment therein, a

reinforcement member for the muzzle end of said false barrel in the form of a bushing fltting therein and having an upwardly extending flange extending through a slit in said false barrel and forming a bead sight, said bushing being cut away at one point to form a channel longitudinally therethrough and being apertured at another point in registration with a shot .en-

trance aperture in said false barrel, a true bar rel insertable through the muzzle of said false barrel having its inner end slidably engaging a socket in said piston abutment, a cap secured to the outer end of said true barrel provided with said false barrel having its inner end slidably engaging the socket in said abutment, a cap mounted on the outer end of said true barrel provided with a cylindrical flange telescopically engaging said false barrel, said flange being further rotative movement, thereby producing in effect a bayonet lock.

4. In a gun, the combination with a false barrel provided with a piston abutment therein, a re-enforcing member for the muzzle end of the false barrel in the form of a bushing fitting therein and having an upwardly projecting flange extending through a slit in said false barrel and forming a bead sight, said bushing being cut away at one point to form a channel longitudinally therethrough, a true barrel insertable through the muzzle of said false barrel having its inner end slidably engaging a socket in said piston abutment, a cap secured to the outer end of said true barrel provided with a cylindrical flange telescopically engaging said reinforcement bushing and a struck-out portion on said cylindrical flange adapted to enter through the channel in said bushing and cooperate with the latter to form a bayonet lock.

CHARLES F. LEFEVER. 

